You enter Digimon Story: Time Stranger, I wasn’t sure what to expect. I was a free Digimon in my youth, but I skipped titles such as the latest Survivors Digimon and even Digimon World Titles, because they just felt lost to me. When I went into this game, I was careful about what I was entering.
So Color Me is surprised when after hours of gameplay and history I had a lot of fun with this game, its premise and mechanics, even if sometimes things can be a bit overwhelming.
Let’s immerse ourselves!
Before I get it deeply, I want to determine that there will be no spoilers of the story in the review. I will simply touch this story, saying that, as the title suggests, you are sent to adventure in the past to discover the mysterious narrative of the game. However, that’s all that you move there, because I know that many people are excited by immersion in this adventure and I would not like to spoil anyone.
Now let’s get into the meat of things. It’s Digimon, so you can expect and tame hundreds of Digimon, dear them in countless lines and put up some of your ancient favorite next to recent ones. In this game I was stunned by the level of Digimon’s diversity. They look visually stunning (as opposed to their human counterparts), they all have unique battle animations and really present many personalities that stood out from beginning to end.
And of course you will have many battles with selected party members. There is a deep level of adaptation, which is unique in this game, and the main fight turns around a tournament based on a game, similar to what you can expect from oldschool Final Fantasy game. And although there are many similarities, the game goes these battles a step further.
There are seven attributes that you need to learn, and, like Pokémon, knowledge of the mighty and weaknesses of each of them is crucial for understanding both. Sometimes they can be slightly ground and repetitive, but fortunately, after leveling Digimon, the battles with lower level enemies can be completely omitted, while receiving prizes. You are also not locked in your main team. You can set up a digimon spare team to replace the fallen allies by keeping you in the battle. You can also exploit this function for a chain of various combinations to aid you go through each meeting. There is even an automatic battle option if you want to survive the fight quickly without introducing all the attack options over and over again.
This is quite a great battle system, and the game is developed quite well thanks to additional skills that you can activate to aid Digimon, known as Cross Arts, and even the option of increasing the speed of fighting, if you do not want to watch the animation over and over again. However, it is quite straightforward to be in later stages, so remember to take every battle to give yourself a chance to fight bosses!
Down, but not
Apart from the battles, there are many more things where you can spend time. Regardless of whether he spends time collecting hundreds of Digimon or learning all their Digivolution methods by meeting certain conditions. There is a lot to discover. However, it also becomes the main problem of the game.
Despite the fact that the game was designed as an ideal entry point for the series for RPG enthusiasts, I found many mechanics and options that are overwhelming for me. It really seems that you are moving through many menu, items, statistics and more to create the perfect party and check the correct field to achieve the digivolution you are looking for. Maybe it’s only me, but I felt overwhelmed early and finished, apart from a few things that could be potentially useful, because the explanations are not always clear.
From an attempt to come up with how to find objects, developing attachment skills, understanding the personality system, learning how digifarus works and ensuring that I have x, y and Z. It is not straightforward even at the basic level. And we didn’t even get to various trees of skills that you have to play with and choose some advantages in the long term.
I’m not saying it’s a bad thing; Having many options and the freedom to really adapt your experience and discover that everything offered can be quite satisfying. However, for me it was a bit disheveled. Especially since all these things were introduced very early, one by one, so I had to learn many different mechanics at the same time, instead of slowly introducing them individually. However, this is a personal pee pee and I am sure that many people can see it differently.
This is our last Digivolution!
Digimon Story: Time Stranger He is probably one of Digimon’s best games he will ever realize to state-of-the-art audiences and seems to be created for the hardcore fan series that played in every previous post. He has a stunning amount of Digimon to find and train, and seems to be a work of love.
By doing so, however, it somewhat imagines the basic fan not Digimon and an ordinary player, because many elements of mechanics and stories are hard for those who are not familiar with the series. Even current veterans can fight to balance everything in the offer here.
But for those who devote their time to master everything. There is no doubt in my heart that you have a great adventure in the digital world.
